>What do folks think? >Take care, >Bill
Hello Bill, The community have been waiting for packages for a long time. I don't believe you did it!!! IMHO most applications do not fully benefit from the power of PostgreSQL because transactions are performed at application lever (PHP/asp/Java/Application server). Sometimes, libraries are mapped to database structure, which is nonsense when a simple view with left joins can solve a problem. Most applications should be developed/ported at PostgreSQL level using the full range of available tools (transactions, triggers, views, foreign keys, rules and off course PL/pgSQL). This is much easier and powerful. Then, all you need is to display information using a good object-oriented language (Java/PHP). With the help of packages, a lot of developers will probably release GPL libraries and PostgreSQL will become the #1 database in the world. At pgAdmin team, we were thinking of developing packages at client level. This is nonsense when reading your paper. The ability of defining context levels is a great feature. Question: how do you map package to PostgreSQL objects (tables, views, triggers)? Is there any possibility of defining templates? Can this be added to packages in the future with little impact on PostgreSQL internals? Now, we can only thank you for bringing Packages to PostgreSQL. Best regards, Jean-Michel POURE pgAdmin Team ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
